Steam Deck for Satisfactory

I've spent a fair amount of time finding Steam Deck settings for Satisfactory that give a 3hr battery life. These settings work nice on my 'mid sized' 150 hr game, but as the build gets bigger I'll probably need to bump up TDP to maintain an adequate framerate. Super fun and lets me play Satisfactory on the train.

Custom controller settings

I uploaded my Steamdeck community controller profile as "satisfactory-deck". Left touchpad is a radial menu for numbers, right touchpad is a radial menu of special keys. L4/R4 enter special building/destroying action layers with sensible customized dpad UI. Very playable without needing a keyboard or mouse on Steamdeck. Though mouse/keyboard is still nice when you are at home.

Settings changes in the Steam UI

• Turn off frame rate limiting, for this game limiting inside the app gives better results
  
• Manual GPU clock limit set to 800 Mhz
  
• TDP limit 8 watt (bigger models will probably need to increase this TDP limit to maintain that rate, but fine on my 50hrs of play time)

UPDATED 8/14/2022: I just switched from Update 5 to Update 6 and if anything things run even better on Steam Deck. But I discovered a better way to limit frame rate to 40 fps, with much lower latency - very fast stick/screen response.

Settings changes in the app "video" options

These settings seem to look almost as good as the stock 'ultra' config but have substantially reduced power consumption.

• Set 40 fps inside the app settings, not in the Steam UI (almost as nice as 60 but **much** lower power draw)
  
• Turn off VSync inside the app - we now turn on the frame limit inside the app, which lets us leave vsync off.
  
• Switch to use the VULKAN rendering API
  
• Lower everything to low. Except for view distance, anti-aliasing and vfx-effects, set those to medium.
  
• Turn off motion blur
  
• Turn off contact shadows

[PrometheusD12]

Im using the control scheme you set up, but I have one question about it. How do you switch between the different Control modes? Like switch from the default controls to the build controls.

[Blix]

I can't seem to find the controls preset, how do I find it??

[MisterSimo]

Vulkan causes the game to freeze / sit at the Satisfactory loading screen when I restart the game after it tells me to, then I have Delete the Proton Files to reset the game so it will work again.
Not sure what I can do to make Vulkan work, so I'm using Dx12.
Does Dx11 give better FPS than Dx12?
Why should I use Vulkan over the others?
Does it offer better FPS?

Sorry for the long post and questions, just want to get the most out of this game. (While fighting the controls lol)

Thanks for any help.

[xX_omaga772_]

i dont like satisfactory on the steam deck :( way too difficult controls

[GingerLoki]

the biggest thing is to reduce the TDP to about 7 W. This will dramatically increase battery life.

[xaxxon]

The problem is that satisfactory is CPU bound not gpu bound at large factory sizes.

[aaron_harrell]

Saves sync to windows but not steam deck

[Morton]

Big thanks! working greate ,
I just don't understand how do I open the inventory.

[Yautja_cetanu]

Do you have any idea of how to incorporate the gyro settings into your satisfactory deck? I usually bind it to R5 to toggle it on or off.

The build mode the touch pads become a mouse which is nice but with things like accessing inventory or using the hub. Is the plan to use joystick not the pads as a mouse?

[SarinSam]

How about button layout? Any suggestions